a day at my zoo: 3 weeks old

I was watching them sleep this morning and a few things about their development occurred to me.

Muffy has been the easiest kitten of the 3, she switched from mom to bottle in a snap, no issues and right away. Her eyes were the first to open, she was the first baby to start purring, she was also the first bub to suck my chin and nose. She is the bully of the bunch. She is the smallest

Arthur, was the hardest to get to take a bottle, his eyes were last to open and were open about 5 days later than his sibs. He is probably the most demanding of them all, he wants your attention and he wants it now. He cries now just to get attention or if he is lost b/c his litter mates are in a different part of their box. He wills scream until one of them approaches him, he then knocks them over and lays down and goes to sleep with whomever it was. He is the biggest

Kate, is also an easy baby, she was the 2nd to open her eyes, the first to use the litter box, and the first to use it consistantly, she was the first to hold her bottle between her paws at feeding time. She sleeps on her back, totally exposed and vulnerable. She is probably the snuggest of them all, she will actually lay beside you, on your chest etc and not move all the while you are petting her, the others are all over the place. She looks like the smallest but the scale pegs her at the middle.

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Today since they are 3 weeks old to the day, I decided to see how they did with solid food. I set out 1 tbsp of canned kitten food, put them all in front of it, stuck my finger it and wiped a bit on their lips. YOu would think that for the first time feed 1 tbsp would be plenty for the entire 3...but NOOOO Arthur chose to eat the entire amount by himself...the girls just had little to no interest in it, they did try some but didn't eat much. But after their run about in the kitchen they all had great 5 hr naps. At 5 hrs I woke them up b/c it was a long time to be napping in the day. I tried again 2 feeds later and the 2 girls still have no interest, this time I put it on a rubber tipped baby spoon and fed them that way, by the end of the meal they had gotten the idea. Arthur again ate more than I would have expected.

I didn't have to change beds at all today, they have all gotten the idea of the litter box. Am going to attempt using litter again tomorrow and hopefully the desire to eat it won't be there. We do have some issues when I change the paper which is often, paper towel just doesn't absorb that much, no matter what bounty says it's all lies lol.

Weights are:

Muffy, 11.9oz, a small jump

Kate, 12.9oz...this is the same as yesterday, I am not worried, as she seems fine, active, playing, eating etc etc. Not gonna stress over 1 day as long as she seems ok.

Arthur, 13.5oz, as you can see the solid food he guzzled back today helped with this gain.

Of course this post would be useless without some pics, keep in mind that the 2 girls were not intereted much, so Arthur is our dominating poser today lol

You can hear him slurrping the food, he was hungry, didn't matter that he had almost an entire ounce of formula just 90 mins before.